CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-36023

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Aug 11, 2023 | Modified: Sep 27, 2023
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Poppler Freedesktop 20.12.1 (including) 20.12.1 (including)
Poppler Ubuntu bionic *
Poppler Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Poppler Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Poppler Ubuntu focal *
Poppler Ubuntu trusty *
Poppler Ubuntu upstream *
Poppler Ubuntu xenial *

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